The morbidity and mortality conference serves an important educational role for physicians and underscores the importance of error disclosure in improving patient safety.

The convening power of clinical ethics committees stems from their reputation for fairness and procedural legitimacy in addressing and resolving ethically complex cases.

The Institute of Medicine's ground-breaking report on medical errors has helped to make patient safety a priority goal, but the findings of the report are often interpreted by the media.

Training should be implemented to respond to clinical staff members’ concerns about trans patients occupying sex-segregated spaces and to help mitigate anti-trans bias.

Refusal of pediatric euthanasia can be considered iatrogenic insofar as it inadvertently prolongs patient suffering, but attitudes differ cross-culturally.

Nontherapeutic infant male circumcision is not medically or ethically justifiable and should be deferred until the person is able to decide for himself.

Physicians are accountable to patients for physical and psychological harm caused by intersex surgery, cosmetic vaginal surgery, or circumcision.

There are four key elements of health system reform that medical educators must endeavor to implement.

In US health care, language and linguistic difference are often conceived in discrete, instrumental, and monolithic terms.

En la atención sanitaria estadounidense, el lenguaje y las diferencias lingüísticas suelen concebirse en términos discretos, instrumentales y monolíticos.